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Sexual Assaults
1,223

Year To Date
Through September 25

Average Sexual Assaults
1106

Year To Date
Same Period in 2021

Sexual Assault Rate
18.3

Per 100,000 people
Last 12 months

Average Sexual Assault Rate
17.7

Per 100,000 people
2019 to 2021


Sexual assaults so far this year are trending up 10.6% compared to the same time period in 2021.

However, the sexual assault rate over the last 12 months is up compared to the annual average over the last three years.

The city is averaging 31 sexual assaults a week over the last 12 months. In 2019, that number was 34 a week.

The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

ABC7’s data team looked at the New York Police Department’s data by neighborhood from 2019 through September 25.

A closer look at sexual assaults by neighborhood

The map color-codes each neighborhood by the sexul assault rate over the last 12 months. Darker blue areas are neighborhoods where the sexual assault rate is higher than the citywide rate.

You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates. You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to that location.